For ever famed—in many a native song.—[MS. erased.]
——a noted song.—[MS. D.]
[57] [Compare Virgil, Æneid, i. 100—
"Ubi tot Simois correpta sub undis
Scuta virûm galeasque et fortia corpora volvit.">[
[58] [The standard, a cross made of Asturian oak (La Cruz de la Victoria), which was said to have fallen from heaven before Pelayo gained the victory over the Moors at Cangas, in A.D. 718, is preserved at Oviedo. Compare Southey's Roderick, XXV.: Poetical Works, 1838, ix. 241, and note, pp. 370, 371.]
[bu] —which Pelagius bore.—[MS. D.]
[59] [{47}] [The Moors were finally expelled from Granada in 1492, in the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella.]
[bv] ——waxed the Crescent pale.—[MS. erased.]
[60] [The reference is to the Romanceros and Caballerías of the sixteenth century.]
[bw] ——thy little date.—[MS. erased.]